KDCS Digital Consultancy

King's Digital Consultancy Services

Overview

Digital Futures Academy

Led by experts of international renown, Digital Futures focuses on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory institutions. Lasting five days, Digital Futures is aimed at managers and other practitioners from the library, museum, heritage and cultural sectors looking to understand the strategic and management issues of developing digital resources from digitisation to delivery.

Digital Futures will cover the following core areas:

Planning and management

Fund raising

Understanding the audience

Social media and its impact

Metadata - introduction and implementation

Copyright and intellectual property

Sustainability, value and impact

Financial issues

Visual and image based resource creation and delivery

Implementing digital resources

Digital preservation

There will be visits to 2 institutions to see behind the scenes and receive expert presentations. For the London Digital Futures this will be the National Gallery and the British Library. For the Digital Futures Australasia this will be State Library New South Wales and the Powerhouse Museum.